From jazz to hip hop, Afro-South Asian music collaborations reflect imagined, more liberatory worlds
From jazz to hip hop, Afro-South Asian music collaborations reflect imagined, more liberatory worlds A conversation with Elliott Powell, author of ‘Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music’. Hip hop singer Missy Elliott at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux. | Valentin Flauraud/Reuters Afro-South Asian (American) musical alliances demonstrate an “other side” of Black life, history, and politics, argues Elliott Powell in his new book, Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music...
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